Daily Schedule

The giant garbage patch in the Pacific ocean grows larger each year, and Captain Charles Moore, who discovered the floating mass of trash, tells how all that plastic got there and what we can do about it. Fanae Aaron and chef Marc Murphy of Landmarc explain how to get your kids to eat their vegetables. Lee Child discusses his latest crime thriller, The Affair. Plus, composer, arranger, guitarist, and producer Nile Rodgers tells about his role in shaping pop music.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Artists Shepard Fairey and William Powhida reflect on artists, the one percent and Occupy Wall Street. Plus: Annie Leibovitz and Bruce Davidson on photographing places; 101 things you...

All this week, Soundcheck has shared some of the year's most memorable live in-studio performances. On this final day of the series, a listen back to highlights from British pop star Adele, R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, the Kronos Quartet and more.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

It's the most wonderful time of the month!  John Schaefer sifts through the deluge of CDs (and digital offerings) which has flooded his office to find a sampling of new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's New Sounds program.  There's new guitar music, maybe best described as "zen-shred," from Ben Greenberg, aka "Hubble," (he of Zs and Pygmy Shrews) from his hypnotic solo space odyssey, "Hubble Drums."